In her debut as author and illustrator, Mirelle Ortega shares her own story of growing up near her family’s pineapple farm in Mexico, where she learned the true meaning of magic.
I learned that magic isn’t good or bad, it just is. Sometimes it gives, sometimes it takes. Sometimes life blossoms, sometimes it wilts.
Growing up on a pineapple farm in Mexico, a girl discovers the true meaning of the word magic in this truly magical picture book about change and transformation of all kinds—what we can’t control, such as natural disasters and loss, and what we can. Magic can transform dirt into pineapples, seeds into trees, wool into blankets, words into stories, blank pages into pictures—a story into a picture book.---from the publisher
40 pages 978-1951836573 Ages 5-9
Keywords: farm, growing up, magic, Mexico, multicultural, natural disaster, inspiration, change, acceptance, diversity, diverse books, Hispanic and Latino and Latine, multigenerational, family, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, 9 year old
